Comments by "yessum15" (@yessum15) on "The Critical Drinker"
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Radio Kaos It makes sense if you're using the starships as mobile command centers to deal with a highly mobile terrorist whose full resources are still uncertain.
The Mexican navy did essentially this a few years back when dealing with land based drug dealers. They took over some of the responsibilities of traditional law enforcement. The idea being that they had greater resources and naval command would be sufficiently isolated to prevent being corrupted and infiltrated by the wealthy and influential drug syndicates in the same way that land based police were.
In general, modern day naval ships are actually a lot more versatile than the popular idea of old school battleships. They're often used to provide logistical support and coordinate land activity.
However, in ST their tech makes starships even more versatile. They've been shown to be capable of surgical precision with no collateral damage, rapid personnel mobilization (transporters), surveillance, and they consume basically no power. They operate as laboratories, military installations, diplomatic centers, educational facilities, etc.
In short, starships are not battleships. Hell even battleships are not 'battleships'. It makes a lot of sense they'd be used in this scenario.
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Radio Kaos My point is exactly that they don't know much about him beyond the fact that he operates interplanetarily, is capable of doing a lot of damage, and is probably not alone. I mean that's really more than enough.
Starships have so many benefits for capturing this kind of criminal. They can deliver surgical strikes (transporters, shuttlecrafts) but also have extra firepower in case he has more backup (eg alien allies, his own ship, space based weaponry), they can pursue and follow a highly mobile target, they have a large amount of personnel with a wide variety of expertise who all know how to work together, they have an isolated and well protected command structure, they have what is essentially a mobile crime lab, etc.
But the biggest difference is that in the star trek world, the cost of deploying a starship is almost nothing.
I mean seriously, Osama bin Laden was captured by the Navy in an operation coordinated on a carrier through the rapid deployment of troops to a residential setting with no civilian casualties. He was a much smaller threat and this was far more expensive.
It'd be crazy if the Federation wasn't using starships.
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